Yew Tree Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Reigate and Banstead local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 1984. Cottage. 7 related planning applications.
Yew Tree Cottage
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Reigate and Banstead
- Constituency
- Dorking and Horley MP: Chris Coghlan (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 April 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Yew Tree Cottage, Haroldslea Drive, Horley, RH6 9DU
- OS grid reference
- TQ 296 421
- Coordinates
- 51.16416, -0.14726
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a cottage dating from the 16th century, with 20th-century extensions to the rear. It is timber framed and rests on a brick and stone plinth. The lower portion of the walls are whitewashed brick, while the upper portion is tile hung. The front has a half-hipped, plain tiled roof with weatherboarded ends, and an offset end stack on the left. The cottage is two storeys high, with two 20th-century casement windows on the first floor. A central planked door is set within a 20th-century open gabled porch that has wooden supports on brick dado walls. A 20th-century rendered and tile-hung pent roof extension is set back to the right. The interior features visible ceiling frames.
Local climate
Yew Tree Cottage receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2002
- Related listed building consents — 7 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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